Secret by Janie Crouch

Author:Janie Crouch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Shelby felt as though she’d been almost run over, had survived a plane crash and had hiked through miles of wilderness over the past twenty-four hours.

Oh, wait, she had.

To say nothing of the most incredible sex ever. That had probably come the closest to killing her. In the best way possible.

She had been determined to hold herself aloof from Dylan, especially after what he had said in the forest. He’d apologized, and they’d even kissed again, but Shelby had already emotionally withdrawn. She had just wanted to get out of the woods, get to Megan and help however she was needed, and then get away from Dylan.

But there had been no reason to sit around talking about her hurt feelings with Dylan in the forest, so Shelby had just bucked up and started walking.

Because if there was one thing Shelby’s mother had taught her, it was to buck up and move on. Shelby had never been able to please her mother. Had never been outgoing and pleasant enough; had always been too rough around the edges. Eventually Shelby had just stopped trying to please someone who couldn’t accept her the way she was. It had been a long and painful lesson that had taken up most of her childhood.

But Shelby knew how to hold her head up and keep moving forward even when a little piece of her heart had cracked. And she’d done it today with Dylan.

He still loved his dead wife. Shelby understood that, couldn’t even fault him for it. His coldness was understandable. But when they’d made it into town, Shelby found that she couldn’t look him in the eye. That somehow, her ability to buck up and move on had failed her.

He didn’t want her. And that hurt.

She’d fled to the shower where she’d been able to pull herself together. All she needed to do was make it through the next few hours until they got to Omega. Then she could say goodbye to Dylan, get the codes to Megan and her supercomputer and get back to her house in Knoxville. And maybe never leave it again.

But then she’d walked out of that shower.

She had no idea what had happened to Dylan while she was in there. Yeah, he’d been giving her the look before she went in. But by the time she came out of the shower, he’d been determined to get what he wanted.

And what he wanted was her.

She lay on his chest now, his fingers trailing up and down her spine.

“Your freckles drove me crazy from the first second I saw you, you know,” he said against her forehead. “You’re lucky you made it out of the diner without me throwing you down on the booth.”

Shelby kissed his chest and laughed. “I’m pretty sure Sally would not have approved.”

“And poor Tucker definitely would’ve had a heart attack.”

Shelby felt so close to Dylan now, not just because of the incredible lovemaking, but because he was more relaxed, at ease. After everything

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